Govs assistant jumping back into competition

12:59 AM,
Mar. 21, 2013

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CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Austin Peay's newest track and field assistant isn't just worried about how he can make the Lady Govs better.

Part-time coach James Jenkins is also looking to return to the form that led him to a personal-best triple jump of 55 feet, one inch (16.79 meters) in Eugene, Ore., good enough for third place at the USA Track and Field Nationals in 2009. That same year, tears in his patella tendon derailed his promising career, leaving him to wonder if he'd ever jump again.

"It was hard for me to be able to jump in 2010," said the former Rivals Top 100 basketball recruit and triple jump ...